One of the saddest spectacles here in a land suffused with the ethos of Judeo-Calvinist-Masonic naturalism is how the secular celebration of thanksgiving day has eclipsed Christmas Day in the homes of many Americans.

This is quite by design as it was the intention of the thirty-third degree Freemason named Franklin Delano Roosevelt to promote shopping during a time when our attention must be on withdrawing from the world. As there are a few new readers to this site, including some from Protestant and even Jewish backgrounds who have expressed an interesting in converting to the true Faith, it is my hope that this republished reflection might of assistance in demonstrating the extent to which the warfare against Christ the King that entered its overt phase with the Protestant Revolution in 1517 has shaped what passes for American "culture" to the detriment of souls and thus to all of social order. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us. 

Saint Catherine of Alexandria, pray for us.

This is a republished reflection about Pope Saint Clement that includes the following passage from Dom Prosper Gueranger's The Liturgical Year:

With only one exception, all of the documents which attest Clement's intervention in the affairs of distant churches have perished with time; but the one that remains shows us in full action the monarchical power of the bishop of Rome at that primitive epoch. The church of Corinth was disturbed with intestine quarrels caused by jealously against certain pastors. These divisions, the germ of which had appeared even in St. Paul's time, had destroyed all peace, and were causing scandal to the very pagans. The Corinthians at last felt the necessity of putting an end to a disorder which might be prejudicial to the extension of the Christian faith; and for this purpose it was requisite to seek assistance from outside. The apostle had all departed this life, except St. John, who was still the light of the Church. It was not great distance from Corinth to Ephesus where the apostle resided: yet it was not to Ephesus but to Rome that the church of Corinth turned. Clement examined the case referred to his judgment by that church, and sent to Corinth five commissaries to represent the Apostolic See. They were bearers of a letter, which St. Irenaeus calls potentissimas litteras. It was considered at the time so beautiful and so apostolic, that it was long read in many churches as a sort of continuation of the canonical Scriptures. Its tone is dignified but paternal, according to St. Peter's advice to pastors. There is nothing in it of a domineering spirit; but the grave and solemn language bespeaks the universal pastor, whom none can disobey without disobeying God Himself. These words so solemn and so firm wrought the desired effect: peace was re-established in the church of Corinth, and the messengers of the Roman Pontiff soon brought back the happy news. A century later, St. Dionysius, bishop of Corinth, expressed to Pope St. Soter the gratitude still felt by his flock towards Clement for the service he had rendered. (Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B., The Liturgical Year.)

Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B,, understood that was and can be no such thing as "resistance" to a true and legitimate Successor of Saint Peter.

As I continue with a sickness that has involved all kinds of well-deserved penance, I simply lack the physical strength to do any orginal writing at this time. It is my hope to be better by the beginning of next week. Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Pope Saint Clement, pray for us.

Saint Felicity, pray for us.

This is a very brief, republished reflection on the heroic virtues of Saint Ceclia, whose feast is celebrated today, November 22, 2022.

I am sorry, but this is all that I can offer you now as I continue fight off the virus that is good penance but left me very weak. Thank you.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Cecilia, pray for us.

Today Monday, November 21, 2022, js the Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is made secondarily. This is a short reflection on the feast day, which is followed by an appendix including the description of the Presentation of Our Lady as found in The New English Edition of The Mystical City of God.

Finally, please pray for a former student of mine who turns fifty-five years of age today and for a friend of ours on Long Island who turns seventy-four years of age today. Thank you. (Yesterday, November 20, 2022, the Twenty-fourth and Last Sunday after Pentecost and the Commemoration of Saint Felix of Valois, was the tweltfh anniversary of the death of a classmate from Saint Aloysius School, Great Neck, New York, Miss Elizabeth Loretta Ehrbar, about who I wrote in 2012 after I found out that she had died two years before:"Why Not Me?".)

I continue to be very ill with the viral infection that is serving as a most blessed and well-deserved penance. I will resume my writing once I have regained my strength, which is wanting at the moment.

Our Lady, Ark of the New Covenant, pray for us.

Saints Joachim and Anne, pray for us.

This is a republished reflection on the suffering endured by the very first member of the Third Order of Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, who suffered much at the hands of her family members and even at the hands of the poor whose welfare she provided so generously when her husband, Louis, was the Landgrieve of Thuringia.

Work on the next original article is being impeded by excruciating pain in my lower lumbar spine caused by severe rotary scoliosis, meaning my spine curves sideways at more than a forty degree angle on the Cobb scale of measuring spinal curvature. This is superb and very richly deserved penance, which I accept with joy and gratitude as means to glorify the Most Holy Trinity and to make a bit of small reparation for my sins by offering up this penance to the throne of the Most Holy Trinity as the consecrated slave of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary. Bear with me, good readers. I will try to work some more on the next original article today and will post it as soon as I can. I have another one to complete thereafter. Prayers would be appreciated at this time.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, pray for us.

Pope Saint Pontianus I, pray for us.

Herewith is a brief commentary on the never-ending agitation caused by the needless strife of partisan politics.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Albert the Great, pray for us.

This is a republished reflection on the life and martrydom of Saint Josaphat Kuncewicz, whose feast is celebrated today.

Saint Jospahat Kuncewicz did what conciliarism forbids, namely, seeking the conversion of the heretical and schismatic Orthodox to the Catholic Church, she who is the one and only true Church founded by Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ upon the Rock of Peter, the Pope. 

The current pretender in Rome has carried on the conciliar "tradition" of claiming that the Orthodox churches are simply a branch of "Christianity." This brief reflection refutes that false contention. Indeed, the very life of Saint Jospahat Kuncewicz is a refutation of that false contention.

My commentary on tthe midterm elections is still a work in progress. Although it was possible as late as five or six years ago to continue to work well after Midnight to complete such an article, such is no longer possible. Thus, I will continue work on it on the morrow and hope to complete it for posting by Tuesday, November 15, 2022, the feast of my own baptismal patron saint, Saint Albert the Great. 

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

Saint Josaphat Kuncewicz, pray for us.

[I have been waiting for some further clarity on the recent excercise in Judeo-Masonic naturalism to run its course before completing my detailed commentary on the spectacle that is as yet unfolding in Nevada, Arizona, and Georgia. Enough is known now, however, for me to proceed to the completion of my commentary,  which should be posted by Monday, November 14, 2022, the Feast of Saint Josaphat. Also, the full text of Senor Jorge's press conference that has made some news of its own if not yet available in English. I will complete part two of "For Without Me You Can Nothing" after this occurs" before returning to part nineteen of "Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus." Thank you.]

This is the first part of a two-part series dealing with Jorge Mario Bergoglio's recent trip to Bahrain. 

Although only a few excerpts from three of Bergoglio's screeds are reviewed in this commentary, those selected are representative of the apostasy that has evolved over the decades within the nooks and crannies of the counterfeit church of conciliarism.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

All the Saints, pray for us.

The Four Holy Crowned Martyrs, pray for us.

You may have noticed that things move more slowly on this site when compared to even the recent past, to say nothing of the halcyon days when I could churn out as many as twenty to twenty-five original articles a month. Things move more slowly now because I move more slowly than I ever have at any point in the previous nearly seventy-one years. I am a sight to behold as I hobble along when out in the public running errands for the family. Penance is better than ever in 2022 and paert of that penance includes rheumatoid arthritis in my right hand on top of the injury I sustained a month ago in a fall off some steep steps on our property has made typing a challenge at times. Thus, articles get produced as I am able to get them completed. Thank you for your patience.

Indeed, I have been working on part nineteen of “Sin: More Dangerous Than the Coronavirus” in the past week before I interrupted that work to pay attention to Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s now-completed trip to Bahrain for his usual displays of denying Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ before those who do not believe in His Sacred Divinity if only by omitting all mention of Our Divine King and speaking of God in the generic terms favored by his Mohammedan audiences. I do hope to have that article completed by posting tomorrow, the Octave Day of All Saints and the Commemoration of the Four Holy Crowned Martyrs, and then will start working on a post-election analysis before resuming work on the coronavirus segment.

The daunting task of going through the recently released “continental report” for the 2024 “synod of bishops” that is nothing other than the further elimination of all vestiges of apparent Catholicism from the life of the counterfeit church of conciliarism awaits me after part nineteen of “Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus” is posted. For the moment, however, a reflection from three months ago, Jean-Claude Hollerich Wants to Listen to "The People," The Catholic Church Speaks for God, may be useful when considering the current “synodal path” of doctrinal and moral destruction, deformation, and disinformation.

An article from June 19, 2021, the Feast of Saint Juliana Falconieri and the Commemoration of Saints Gervase and Protase, is being republished today, Monday, November 7, 2022, to remind readers of the immorality and the physical dangers associated with marijuana, whose legalization is only the ballot in four more states tomorrow, Tuesday, November 8, 2022.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.

All the Saints, pray for us.

Our one and only goal in this life is to get home to Heaven by dying in a state of Sanctifying Grace as a member of the Catholic Church. Absolutely nothing else matters. The path to Heaven runs through the Cross of our Divine Redeemer, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, as we consecrate ourselves to Him totally through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of His Most Blessed Mother. We must embrace suffering and humiliation and hardship with equanimity, joy and gratitude, mindful of the fact that Our Lady desires use whatever merits we earn from our embrace of our sufferings for the honor and glory of the Most Blessed Trinity and for the good of souls, especially the Poor Souls in the Church Suffering in Purgatory, whose intentions we must remember every day and especially during this month of November. There is no other path to the triumph of the empty tomb other than the suffering of the Cross.

We must also forgive right readily those who have offended us in any way and to ask forgiveness from those whom we have offended, whether advertently or inadvertently. Nothing anyone does to us or says about us is the equal of what one of our least Venial Sins caused Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to suffer in His Sacred Humanity during his Passion and Death and that caused His Most Blessed Mother's Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart to be pierced through and through with Seven Swords of Sorrow. The good, the bad and the ugly of ever person's life is revealed only on the Last Day at the General Judgment of the living and the dead. Let us be content to bear with suffering, humiliation, ostracism and mockery now as a means of so dying to self that we will consider it to be a great honor to be crushed and brought low in the sight of men. Suffering is indeed the path to triumph!

We must continue to pray for each other on a daily basis, praying especially that the disagreements of the present moment in this time of apostasy and betrayal will be washed away by the merits of the Most Precious Blood of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and by the maternal intercession of His Most Blessed Mother. If we want to be in Heaven for all eternity, you see, in the presence of the Most Blessed Trinity, Our Lady, Saint Joseph and all of the angels of the saints, then it is a pretty good idea to pray for everyone whom God's Providence has placed in our paths, hoping that those from whom we might be estranged at the present time, especially because of the divisions among Catholics created by conciliarism and its apostasies, will be united with us for all eternity in the glories of Heaven, please God that each of us dies in a state of Sanctifying Grace.

One of ways in which we can practice true Charity is to remember the Poor Souls every day in our prayers. Terrible, terrible sinner that I am, one of my devotions has long been to the Poor Souls. To help the Poor Souls repay the debt that they can no longer pay for themselves is to acquire friends for eternity who will help us at the moment of our own deaths. Charity to the Poor Souls can help to undo our own uncharity to others in this passing, mortal vale of tears. This is indeed the month of the Poor Souls. Let us show them our due attention each and every day of the year, especially in this month of November.

Remember, of course, that from noon yesterday, Monday, November 1, 2022, through midnight today, November 2, 2022, the Commemoration of All Souls, the Catholic faithful, as often as they visit a church or to pray for the dead, reciting six times during each visit the Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be for the intentions of Holy Mother Church may gain a plenary indulgence applicable only to the souls in Purgatory, under the usual conditions of making a good Confession within a week before or after, worthily receiving Holy Communion within the week and having the right intention of heart. This is called the Toties Quoties Indulgence.

Also, courtesy of the Daily Catholic website, are the Thirty-Day De Profundis Prayers for the Holy Souls in Purgatory.

Our Lady of Deliverance, pray for the Poor Souls and for us.

Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May their souls and all the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.